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The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
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Andrew Lang
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THE
GIRL
IN
PINK
The
following
anecdote
was
told
to
myself,
a
few
months
after
the
curious
event,
by
the
three
witnesses
in
the
case.
They
were
connections
of
my
own,
the
father
was
a
clergyman
of
the
Anglican
Church;
he,
his
wife
and
their
daughter,
a
girl
of
twenty,
were
the
"percipients".
All
are
cheerful,
sagacious
people,
and
all,
though
they
absolutely
agreed
as
to
the
facts
in
their
experience,
professed
an
utter
disbelief
in
"ghosts,"
which
the
occurrence
has
not
affected
in
any
way.
They
usually
reside
in
a
foreign
city,
where
there
is
a
good
deal
of
English
society.
One
day
they
left
the
town
to
lunch
with
a
young
fellow-countryman
who
lived
in
a
villa
in
the
neighbourhood.
There
he
was
attempting
to
farm
a
small
estate,
with
what
measure
of
success
the
story
does
not
say.
His
house
was
kept
by
his
sister,
who
was
present,
of
course,
at
the
little
luncheon
party.
During
the
meal
some
question
was
asked,
or
some
remark
was
made,
to
which
the
clerical
guest
replied
in
English
by
a
reference
to
"the
maid-servant
in
pink".
"There
is
no
maid
in
pink,"
said
the
host,
and
he
asked
both
his
other
guests
to
corroborate
him.
Both
ladies,
mother
and
daughter,
were
obliged
to
say
that
unless
their
eyes
deceived
them,
they
certainly
had
seen
a
girl
in
pink
attending
on
them,
or,
at
least,
moving
about
in
the
room.
To
this
their
entertainers
earnestly
replied
that
no
such
person
was
in
their
establishment,
that
they
had
no
woman
servant
but
the
elderly
cook
and
housekeeper,
then
present,
who
was
neither
a
girl
nor
in
pink.
After
luncheon
the
guests
were
taken
all
over
the
house,
to
convince
them
of
the
absence
of
the
young
woman
whom
they
had
seen,
and
assuredly
there
was
no
trace
of
her.
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